Category: empire
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Counterinsurgency and raping children: a success story
Gian Gentile: In COIN, a precondition for success is the existence of a legitimate government. The United States has one success in the history of counterinsurgency since WW II to its credit: it succeeded in assisting the legitimate government of El Salvador defeat an internal communist insurgency. However, it was…
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The Miracle of US Counter Intelligence in Afghanistan
From: Rory Stewart in the NYRB. (read the whole thing) Gopal, a Wall Street Journal and Christian Science Monitor reporter, investigates, for example, a US counterterrorist operation in January 2002. US Central Command in Tampa, Florida, had identified two sites as likely “al-Qaeda compounds.” It sent in a Special Forces…
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The road to serfdom
Is there is a book that is more deeply dishonest than Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom”? Towards the end of his life Hayek visited Pinochet’s Chile and – toasting traitors, rapists, torturers, and murderers – he thanked them for restoring “economic liberty”. In 1943 he was more circumspect: It is important…
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